• Arab League endorses direct talks
 Arab League foreign ministers on Thursday authorized the Palestinian Authority to enter into direct negotiations with Israel, but left it up to PA President Mahmoud Abbas to decide on the timing. Jerusalem immediately welcomed the decision, taken at a special meeting in Cairo, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issuing...
Jul 30th, 2010 09:02 AM
• Israel believes Abbas will bide time on direct talks
 Officials in Jerusalem believe that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attempt to delay at all cost the beginning of direct peace negotiations with Israel, even after the Arab League gave the green light for the process at a special session on Thursday. A senior source in Jerusalem said that Abbas will likely wait until...
Jul 30th, 2010 09:00 AM
• Hamas: Direct talks will lead to more Palestinian suffering
 The terrorist Hamas movement issued a statement on Thursday criticizing the Arab nations' support for the resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, maintaining that direct talks would only lead to "to more Palestinian suffering as Israel goes on constructing settlements." The United States, on the other hand...
Jul 30th, 2010 08:56 AM
• The PA struggles to sabotage any chance for peace
 Shouldn't this farce teach us a lesson? The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the United States and others have telephoned Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas and begged him, pleaded with him: Oh, please please--one can imagine them saying--negotiate with Israel so we can give you a state as soon as possible...
Jul 30th, 2010 08:33 AM
• Putin’s War on Israel
 Now that another Middle East war seems imminent, concerns are growing about the new powerful weapons that are available to Palestinian terrorists. It appears to be virtually unknown that these weapons are being steadily supplied by Putin’s Russia. In the present atmosphere of the everlasting “reset” of relations between the U.S. and...
Jul 29th, 2010 10:01 AM
• Abbas seeks Arab backing to nix talks
 In a final thrust to persuade reluctant Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to enter direct talks with Israel, the EU coupled strong exhortations on Wednesday to Abbas to immediately begin them, with statements designed to give him confidence that once at the negotiating table, he will have strong support for a number...
Jul 29th, 2010 09:59 AM
• US steps up calls for direct talks
 WASHINGTON – The US is increasing its calls for Israelis and Palestinians to move to direct negotiations, even as Palestinians continue to demand Israeli concessions before moving on from proximity talks. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley described the US posture on Tuesday as having “a full court press under way to see if...
Jul 29th, 2010 09:57 AM
• Bibi: Israel's government will fall if freeze continues
 Continuing the construction freeze in West Bank settlements after it expires on September 26 would be impossible politically and would bring down the coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Moratinos told Netanyahu that the European...
Jul 29th, 2010 09:55 AM
• Synagogue in Maryland vandalized
 Police were investigating the appearance of anti-Semitic graffiti on the outside of the B’Nai Shalom Synagogue in Olney, Maryland, NBC Washington reported. Parents arrived to drop their children off at the Synagogue's summer camp on Monday morning and were shocked to discover the anti-semitic words and symbols...
Jul 28th, 2010 02:15 PM
• 'For peace, you have to meet directly'
 A day before a critical meeting of Arab League Foreign Ministers in Cairo to discuss whether to support direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos sent a clear European message Wednesday that it was time now to enter direct talks. "It is true that if you want peace...
Jul 28th, 2010 02:00 PM
• IDF rescue units land at Romania crash site
 Three helicopters from the IDF's elite 669 search and rescue unit on Wednesday landed at a site in Romania where an Israeli miltary helicopter crashed on Monday. Aboard the rescue aircraft, which took off from a nearby Romanian airbase at around 6:00 AM local time, were carrying army crash investigators, as well as IDF rabbis...
Jul 28th, 2010 01:50 PM
• Iran’s Proxy Powder Keg
 July 12, 2010 marked the fourth anniversary of Israel’s Second Lebanon War. In the intervening years, Hezbollah has made significant political and military gains in Lebanon. The rise in the paramilitary terrorist organization is likely due to three key factors: to Israel’s failure in 2006 to completely destroy Hezbollah’s...
Jul 28th, 2010 01:47 PM
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